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Boris Taslitzky (France), Le Petit Camp à Buchenwald (The Small Camp of Buchenwald), 1945. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. When Dante Alighieri and his guide reach the fifth circle of hell in Inferno’s Canto VII, they come across the River Styx, where people who could not contain their anger in life now wallow and fight each other on the surface of the turbulent, muddy water, and below them lie those who had been sullen in life, their frustrations coming to the surface as…

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Ōriwa Tahupōtiki Haddon (Ngāti Ruanui), Reconstruction of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, c. 1940. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. For the past few weeks I have been on the road in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia at the invitation of groups such as Te Kuaka, Red Ant, and the Communist Party of Australia. Both countries were shaped by British colonialism, marked by the violent displacement of native communities and theft of their lands. Today, as they become part of the US-led…

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Here’s some projects we are working on: $2,000 with fund expenses for a Worker’s Voice volunteer organizer to travel to cities across the country where we are currently developing new branches. $1,500 would help cover travel and honoraria expenses for building our East Coast “The Solution is Socialism” conference in the spring of 2025. $1,000 could help cover the cost of venues for our winter revolutionary day schools on the West and East Coast. $750 would allow us to publish a new bilingual pamphlet on black liberation. $500 will help…

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Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu (Mongolia), Floating in the Wind, 2023. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1919, Winston Churchill wrote, ‘I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes’. Churchill, grappling at the time with the Kurdish rebellion in northern Iraq as Britain’s secretary of state for war and air, argued that such use of gas ‘would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected’. Gas warfare had first been employed by France…

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Media Statement 28 October 2024 South Africa has filed its Memorial to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) today, 28 October 2024, in its case on the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa vs. Israel). In accordance with the Rules of Court, the Memorial may not be made public. The filing of this memorial takes place at a time when Israel is intensifying the killing of civilians in Gaza and now seems intent to follow a…

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8/10/2024Publication: CWAOAuthor: Suliman Rajah by comrade Suliman Rajah “In the shadow of the factoryUnder a sugar-coated skyThe scent of Mister Sweet fills the airBut there’s a bitter cryThey work their hands to the boneFor a pittance and a crumbWhile the bosses sip on profitsThe workers’ hearts grow numb.Candy smiles on postersBut the truth is not so neatBehind every shiny wrapperThere’s a struggle in the streetSweet turns to bitterWhen justice is deniedWe stand with the workers We’re right by their sideFor R19 500They march with pride” Category: MULTIMEDIA | DISPUTES Source…

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1917. The Bolsheviks in Power by Alexander Rabinowitch “The fundamental question of why the Bolsheviks were able to win is not easy to answer” Among the merits of the American historian Rabinowitch is that of restoring the 1917 insurrection to its concrete, human and political dimension, as well as recounting with a free pen the mobilizations that led the Bolsheviks to overthrow the Kerensky government. Obviously, one should not underestimate the weight played in the affair by Lenin personally, but this book also shows how the Bolshevik Party, far from…

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